health
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What are your feelings about eating meat. I’m vegan so that just about answers the question, but that wouldn’t be a very long blog post so here are just a few reasons that people commonly give for not going vegan that I have debunked. You’ll be deficient in B12 Everyone should take a B12 vitamin.…
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The following day was the last full day in France. We went to Land and Monkeys again for vegan pastry. This day was going to be busy so once we finished we had to go straight over to the meeting point for our guided tour of The palace of Versailles. We actually arrived a little…
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In December 2023, I was incorrectly advised to forgo taking my hydrocortisone for 24 hours, that lead me to have an adrenal crisis. This, along with the surgery and starting of chemo, bringing lots of trauma from my two years of IV chemo as a teenager, all caused me to lose a lot of confidence.By…
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What will your life be like in three years? That’s a hard question to answer when I live with a cancer that has about a 50% mortality rate. While it’s true that nobody knows exactly when they will die, it feels like quite a difficult topic for me. It’s something I’m working on. I find,…
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What’s something you believe everyone should know.
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What is your favorite form of physical exercise? The honest answer is that I don’t know anymore. Pre cancer and pre the struggles with my mental health, I used to walk a lot, go to the gym, I loved my aqua aerobics class. I would go almost every day. But surgery, feeling so poorly and…
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Today marks two years since the surgery that changed my life. A lot has happened in those two years. Physically and mentally I’ll never be the same person because that day, the surgery changed me. How could it not. It changed me physically. I’ve never got back to my strength or fitness and mentally it…
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What have you been working on? Well the thing I’m working on most and the thing I have been working on since July 2023 when I had a stay in a mental health hospital has been my mental health. It’s ongoing and it’s hard. It takes a lot of my energy, and a lot of…
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What are you doing this evening? Honestly I wish I could have something inspiring or enlightening to say. I wish I could make the first blog post in months one to get excited about, but truth fully I am doing nothing special. Today I had my blood test, that checks that my cancer markers are…
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I have been so busy, I feel like I have let things lapse a little with my blog. Although its actually only been a week since I last uploaded! I am quite hard on myself and need to remind myself that actually I do this blog for fun and there is nothing saying that I…
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